quatrain

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2077 2-2] Reading: Betit buind fri brannfossaib 3-3] This quatrain is almost identical with the one translated on page 199 Thus far 'The Scythed Chariot.

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  1. noun A stanza or poem of four lines.

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  • In the third stanza, I consider the middle quatrain, that is, the four lines beginning “Out of this world,” perfectly grand. —  England's Antiphon
  • On the opposite wall a quatrain has been censored in the same way Those who write on bathroom walls roll their in little balls and those who read these lines of wit eat those little balls of You target two floating cigaret butts, pull the chain and send them whirling down to darkness. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • Well, this quatrain is said, I believe truly, to have been discovered in a well near Padua some fifty years ago Studiando le mie cifre, col compasso Rilevo, che presto saro sotterra Perche del mio saper si fa gran chiasso E gl'ignoranti m'hanno mosso guerra. —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 1845-1846
  • Even when a Blue-Coat he could turn a pretty quatrain, and when he went away to Cambridge and once in a long while wrote a letter down to “My Own C.L.,” it was a feast for the sister, too. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14
  • The poem is characterized by having two refrains, initially used in the first and third lines of the first stanza, and then alternately used at the close of each subsequent stanza until the final quatrain, which is concluded by the two refrains. —  LearnHub Activities
 

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  1. French, from Old French, from quatre, four, from Latin quattuor; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also, improperly, quartrain; from French quatrain, a stanza of four lines, from quatre, four, from Latin quattuor = English four: see four.
 

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/ˈkwɑtreɪn/
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